by Matthew Johnson | Jul 11, 2018 | PTAB News
By: Rich Graham and Matt Johnson On July 10, 2018, the PTAB announced the designation the following five decisions as informative: Colas Sols. Inc. v. Blacklidge Emulsions, Inc., Case IPR2018-00242, Paper 9 (Feb. 27, 2018) – holding that 35 U.S.C. § 315(a)(1) bars...
by Matthew Johnson | Jul 2, 2018 | Motions Practice
By: Matt Johnson, Josh Nightingale, and Grant Hebrank* The Patent Trial and Appeal Board held a Boardside Chat webinar on June 7, 2018, during which Administrative Patent Judges Justin T. Arbes and Kevin W. Cherry discussed motions to exclude and motions to strike in...
by Matthew Johnson | Jul 2, 2018 | Other News
By: Alex K. Chung and Matt Johnson Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), the namesake and coauthor of the Hatch-Waxman Act, proposed (but has not yet introduced) an amendment titled the “Hatch-Waxman Integrity Act of 2018” during the Senate Judiciary Committee held on June...
by Matthew Johnson | Jun 14, 2018 | Evidentiary Issues
By: Tom Ritchie and Matt Johnson In Ericsson Inc. v. Intellectual Ventures I LLC, No. 2016-1671, 2018 WL 2407172 (Fed. Cir. 2018), a divided panel of the Federal Circuit reversed a PTAB decision that had sustained the patentability of claim 1 of U.S. Patent No....
by Matthew Johnson | Jun 5, 2018 | Federal Circuit, Federal Circuit Appeal
By: Matt Johnson We have previously discussed the ramifications of the Supreme Court’s decision in SAS Institute, Inc. v. Iancu, which held that the PTAB cannot institute an IPR on only some of the petitioned claims. One open question was what the Federal Circuit...
